International Day of the African Child
This year's International Day of the African Child offers some cause for optimism and a call for renewed energy to be directed toward improving the lives of millions of children in the developing world.
Consider the good news first: Low cost health solutions are available to alleviate a range of highly preventable diseases that plague children throughout sub-Saharan Africa. A broad coalition of leading organizations such as Save the Children, World Vision, CARE and others are now organized under the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival (Coalition) in the common pursuit of greatly improving the likelihood that most children in Africa live to enjoy life beyond their fifth birthday.
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June 12, 2008 - Paul T. Antony, MD, MPH, medical director of Global Health Progress and Direct Relief International President and CEO Thomas Tighe held a press teleconference to highlight the longer term implication of the Cyclone in Myanmar focusing on disease.